What kind of software do engineers use?

>What kind of software do engineers use?

Windows/*BSD
Matlab
Maple
Python
Visual Studio C++
Notepad++
VMware/VirutalBox
Firefox/Chrome
SVN/git/gmail with zipped code files
CommonSense2016se

Looooooooooool

Maybe 1% of actual engineers use that overpriced and impractically complex pseudo programming language

SEs belong on

>Visual Studio C++
Uh wat

Maybe if you work for a company worth under a billy.

Which is probably less than 1% like I already said

>Windows/*BSD
Why would they use *BSD over OS X or GNU/Linux? Is *BSD somehow more applicable for engineering than the other, more mainstream operating systems?

OP.

So if I buy a doorknob, it's safe to say an engineer used CAD to design it? What about chemists (chemical engineer I suppose).

Tanks
Prozac
TVs
Bicycles
IceSkates

How is software involved with any sort of engineering?

I use Autodesk Inventor and Autocad a lot at work

>Autodesk Inventor
fucking shit tier CAD program
ProE/creo master race

also depends a lot on what type/what you do

labview
matlab
excel
multisim
pspice
maple
mathematica

>it's safe to say an engineer used CAD to design it?
yeah

t. someone who CADs trivial shit

>don't own a home

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What kind of engineering is best for being able to work directly within the defense areas like new aircraft and such? I assume aerospace, correct? And just because i'm curious, do aerospace engineers work on top secret projects for the military? Or would you need to join the military?

>do aerospace engineers work on top secret projects for the military?
>what is lockheed martin, boeing, northrop grumman, etc

> engineering for the DoD
MechE, EE, Aero, CompE, prob even Civil
> Or would you need to join the military?
A lot of work is done by contractors.
Either in academia or in the private sector.

They don't need software, they use their brain.

very funny.
Modern Engineering without the use of software is completely unthinkable.
Most bigger problems that need to be accurately calculated cant be done by humans.

MS Paint

Youtube

GNU/Linux

> undergrad detected
Most engineering requires little more than a calculator and a datasheet.

oh and CAD. Not needed, but its easier to have nicer drawings.

in EE we use:
>MPLAB
>MATLAB
>LTSpice/PSpice
>EagleCAD
>Quartus II
>MS Office

I mean solving even a moderately sized framework leads to a giant system of linear equations.

Of course you can do it in your head in 30 mins or so but you can also type it into the computer and get the guaranteed right answer in under 1 sec + typing time.

>a giant system of linear equations
>Of course you can do it in your head in 30 mins
I'm not sure your definition of "giant" is the same of mine

I meant a framework with about 20 rods.
It is "giant" when you try to solve it on paper and not make mistakes.

Literally every engineer at my university uses it
It's incredibly useful, I think I'm in love with it

Say you want to simulate an object flying through the air, how are you gonna do that without a computer if you're not neglecting drag by the air
It would take you many many hours for what a computer can do in a minute

First year retard detected

That's because you never actually used a real programming language.

Are you incapable of reading comprehension? Have you even tried to read that post before replying?

Java

The point of matlab is that it's easy to use and it's got a lot of mathematical functions built in.
Like yeah I can write my own fourier transform but why would I when I can just use the builtin function.

Bait

More hardware than software desu. As in, hard cocks down their throat.

>at my university
And once you enter into the job market you'll find that the majority don't use it. Honestly the "muh 100K starting job" or whatever that all of Veeky Forumss engineers think they're just going to walk into, where they start solving huge and complex problems, are few and far between. You're more likely to use excel than matlab.

True enough, I'm probably gonna usa Solidworks though

OS: Windows, everything else is mocked and ridiculed (unless you're talking electronic engineers; they're starting to get into Linux, since it now runs on a lot of their embedded devices)

Others:
Excel (major player)
Outlook (engineers have tons of meetings and shit)
Matlab (lol at , you have no fucking idea)
Python (but Matlab dominates)

CAD:
Catia
Creo
SolidWorks

CAE:
HyperWorks
ANSYS
StarCCM+
(i'm forgetting something)

some CAM shit i can't remember the name of

IDEs:
Visual Studio
Ecplise with bazillions of Plugins
ATMEL Studio, KEIL and other embedded device toolchains

i come in contact with all sorts of automotive engineers, which is my source of information.

Custom ICS or SCADA for plants.

>at my university
Everyone uses it at unis because they get big discounts for it. Besides universities I haven't seen it being used anywhere because it's just too expensive. That's also one of the reasons why Python got so popular.

bittorrent

another reason is that python is a sane language, compared to the mess that matlab is

>indices start at 1
>single quote strings
>script files may not contain functions
>function files may only contain functions
wtf matlab, why do we need 2 kinds of files
octave is pretty much a matlab clone and we can have functions in a script file there
But octave's plot windows are much less cool that matlabs, and it can't even do linear function fitting there

python with numpy and scipy has tons of build in stuff too.
if you get the appropriate libraries it can do even more stuff than matlab.
it can even interact with matlab stuff like .mat files, which makes transitioning nice and easy.

For fast and easy stuff use excel, for more complex stuff use python.
Never use matlab if you can avoid it.

Eclipse IDE from 2005 or notepad

No VC, we use flash drives of dubious origin

As for OS we use windows xp with SP 1

t. it pro

What if you're doing control and you want to use simulink? Is there an alternative?

This is what I was wondering too. Engineer confirmed.

Clearly bait. Try harder.

>at my university
Do you mean engineering students? Well they don't know. Do you mean engineers working at a university? Well then they clearly can't make it in a real engineering job.

>tfw I've had jobs in electrical, mechanical, and software engineering, I've used matlab or octave and mathematica or maxima in each of these sectors in a professional setting.

I mean I think it's your own fault if you're unwilling to score a job where you do complex shit that requires serious math. prepare to be outsourced to india.

Breh I have no idea what you're talking about. That was my first post in this thread. I was just saying that fucking uni students don't know what industry is like.

>I was just saying that fucking uni students don't know what industry is like.

that's true.

what's also true though is that most uni students don't bother to try and apply their uni knowledge in industry. that's how they turn into second-rate yes-men.

>Why would they use *BSD over OS X
OS X is *BSD, dummy.

But if you exclude OS X, then there's also the licence issue. BSD license allows developers to take the open source code, modify it, and make it proprietary, while Linux GPL forces devs to release the modifications as open source.
If Google wouldn't want Android to be open source, they'd go with BSD. Just like Apple sort of did.
Other than licence, FreeBSD is famous for its network stack, OpenBSD for its security and NetBSD for its portability, each supposedly surpassing Linux in their category.
OTOH, Linux has far greater support, so be prepared for driver hell if you want to try one of them.

Extremely accurate. Lol

The things I've seen done in Excel... I'm pretty sure many programmers have never in their life put as much effort into a single project as e.g. my brother into some of his spreadsheets.
I tried to convince him to learn at least python (he knows C though), but he had a pretty valid point - everyone else in his field uses Excel, so he can't just switch to something no one else is familiar with.

>but he had a pretty valid point - everyone else in his field uses Excel, so he can't just switch to something no one else is familiar with.
What's it like for a proprietary shitware company to have a cuckhold on an entire field, forcing them to use inferior tools?

The fuck should I know?
I didn't even understood what exactly it is it's supposed to do. He just showed me one of those big fucking spreadsheets an gave me a "brief" 20 minute presentation of how it works, which confused the hell out of me because that's not my field. Something to do with remodeling oil rigs I suppose.

Because GPL is cancer and Engineers find fashion-label tech stupid as hell.

I agree with you in principle but have mixed feelings with anything a proprietary shitware company can profit off of. Then again, Microshaft is paying Canonical to port command-line utils now to stay in the race, so there is that side too.

>If Google wouldn't want Android to be open source, they'd go with BSD.

They couldn't because GPL is unfree.

>BSD license allows developers to take the open source code, modify it, and make it proprietary, while Linux GPL forces devs to release the

Heavens forbid people be entitled to their own work. Where do they get off seeing something being given away for free and taking for free.

BSD is free software as everyone is free to do whatever they want with it (except sue the creator or expect warranty/customer service).

GPL is only accessible if you swear lifetime allegiance to the cult and dedicate all future labors to the cult.

>B-b-but thousands of autists repeat the mantra: "Free as in freedom!"
>According to Hitler's Theory of the Big Lie, that scientifically proves it

>CAD:
>Catia
>Creo
>SolidWorks
NX
Pro/E
AutoCAD

>CAE:
>HyperWorks
>ANSYS
>StarCCM+
>(i'm forgetting something)
NASTRAN
Abaqus
CFX
MSC Adams
SAP2000

kek

>BSD is free software as everyone is free to do whatever they want with it (except sue the creator or expect warranty/customer service).
>GPL is only accessible if you swear lifetime allegiance to the cult and dedicate all future labors to the cult.
Funny that triggered you, as nowhere in that post I suggested one is better than the other. In a matter of fact, I personally also prefer BSD for the same reasons as you.

gemcom SURPAC. damn good geostatistics/CAD software

middle out compression

My god what terrible yet brows.
She's pretty cute though.

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